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The importance of mother language

International Mother Language Day is commemorated each year on February 21.  It was designated by United Nations as a day to recognize and accord importance to languages and multilingualism in order to advance inclusion and attain the Sustainable Development Goals…

The challenges of women in mining in Ghana

Women in miningface similar problems aswomenin any other technicalindustry. The lack of skills, due partly to lack of interest, prejudice and cultural restrictions, combine to rob this huge portion of the nation's human capital from development and application. In this report,…

Residents of a slum near Abuja lack development

With a population of nearly two hundred million people, Nigeria, like many developing countries is struggling to cater to the needs of its citizens despite being the premier economic powerhouse in Africa. More than 10 million children in the country…

Author Anna Badkhen on Daybreak West Africa

Anna Badkhen has spent most of her life in the Global South. Her immersive investigations of the world's iniquities have yielded six books of literary nonfiction. Her essays and dispatches appear in periodicals and literary magazines such as the New…